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Apple Releases OS X Mavericks Developer Preview 6
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Instead of releasing every year why doesn't Apple go on a 1.5 year schedule and use the extra time to squash bugs?
I was not clear: have you rebooted your apple tv? I have seen mac airplay go down and rebooting the atv cleaned it up.
Nope, you're wrong. See here's the issue with this forum. Many people here are not real "OS X Developers" and they have Mavericks installed on their systems the unorthodox way, so they are blaming OS X for 3rd party apps that don't work with every release as if they have the right to judge, and they really don't, and they know it. Each DP release is for Google and other Mac developers only and those Developers are suppose to update their apps with each DP release so by the time it hits the streets those apps should be working.
If Apple makes a change in DP6 that affects the operation of a 3rd party app then it's that Developer's job to update his/her app, plain and simple. Problem is people here who shouldn't be running the Developer Preview act as if we're all using the retail GM version so each time Apple puts out a software update it's "Apple's fault" not the poor developers. WRONG.
You and everyone else has a right to pass judgement once Mavericks hits the streets for retail purchase.
PowerPoint 2011 Slide Sorter Upside Down!
Just a warning before you install DP6. In PowerPoint 2011 the slide sorter shows the slides upside down and backward. The editing pane works fine and the presentations will display fine, but you will find it challenging to edit the slides in the sorter.
Just a warning before you install DP6. In PowerPoint 2011 the slide sorter shows the slides upside down and backward. The editing pane works fine and the presentations will display fine, but you will find it challenging to edit the slides in the sorter.
If that is 'nightmarish' to you, you should count yourself fortunate for having had an extremely easy life.
Tin-Tin = Filipino slang for penis.
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QUOTE=WardC;17770091]MacOS X 10.9 Mavericks
MacOS X 10.10 "Tin-Tin"
Or will they call it "Nuggets" instead, since Apple seems to like naming their NEW OS X Releases after NBA basketball teams?
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I hope it will let me configure my ImageWriter...gawd I love dot-matrix...scrrreeech screech!![/QUOTE]
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QUOTE=WardC;17770091]MacOS X 10.9 Mavericks
MacOS X 10.10 "Tin-Tin"
Or will they call it "Nuggets" instead, since Apple seems to like naming their NEW OS X Releases after NBA basketball teams?
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I hope it will let me configure my ImageWriter...gawd I love dot-matrix...scrrreeech screech!![/QUOTE]
Yuck! I hope they NEVER do that...iOS7 looks like a little kid made it and mom and dad TRIED to clean it up, but were fairly unsuccessful.
There's plenty special about Mavericks
The under-the-hood power handling and performance improvements should really excite you as a rMBP owner. Read more deeply into it.
The under-the-hood power handling and performance improvements should really excite you as a rMBP owner. Read more deeply into it.
It's far from "broken by design". The multi-monitor function in Mavericks works exactly the way I want it to. Each monitor working independently, so I can span info and apps across the monitors, then only change the view on each screen separately. It's actually really helpful for the way I work.
Also, these features don't prevent you from stretching across multiple displays. Especially because most "high end" apps that do that, don't actually use the full screen mode. The just let you undock a particular window and move it to the other screen. Mavericks still supports that just fine. Extended desktop still works.
The guy in the video doesn't really want multiple monitor support, he want's one big virtual monitor made. it's made up up of smaller real monitors, but he wants the whole thing to work as if it where only one screen. Which is the way it works in Lion/Mountain Lion, and you can switch back to that mode in system preferences in Mavericks.
Same here. There are some performance tweaks, but beyond that (as a single screen user) I don't see many killer features really on a end-user level.
The perotmance tweaks and new memory management stuff are reason enough for me to upgrade.
I've been using Mavericks since the first preview and DP5 seems to have introduced a lot of under the hood changes and tweaks which have resulted in a huge improvement in performance on my mid-2011 MBP. The difference between Mavericks and ML is really noticeable for me.
Depends on your workflow, I guess.
I'm a single screen user as well, but I can't wait for Mavericks! The power handling and performance tweaks will all make for a much faster, smoother, and more reliable UX as the Mac hardware will be much more efficient.
I use tabs all the time in Safari and am curious to see how much I'll use them in Finder. Not really envisioning how I will at this point, but I don't see it as a useless feature or, worse, a step in the wrong direction.
What I am really excited about is Tagging. After all these years, I'm sick to death of manually managing my ever-growing number of files. The need/desire to sync them across multiple devices has made the chore all the more tedious. Tags promises a way to dramatically simplify all of that. I've got grad school coming up, and Tags will help me stay even more organized and make my life a lot easier.
Best case scenario is that Apple makes both iOS 7 and iCloud Tags-aware at Mavericks' launch, but I suspect that might not happen. Hopefully, Tags will be a tentpole feature across the entire Apple ecosystem before too long though.
Same here. There are some performance tweaks, but beyond that (as a single screen user) I don't see many killer features really on a end-user level.
I'm a single screen user as well, but I can't wait for Mavericks! The power handling and performance tweaks will all make for a much faster, smoother, and more reliable UX as the Mac hardware will be much more efficient.
I use tabs all the time in Safari and am curious to see how much I'll use them in Finder. Not really envisioning how I will at this point, but I don't see it as a useless feature or, worse, a step in the wrong direction.
What I am really excited about is Tagging. After all these years, I'm sick to death of manually managing my ever-growing number of files. The need/desire to sync them across multiple devices has made the chore all the more tedious. Tags promises a way to dramatically simplify all of that. I've got grad school coming up, and Tags will help me stay even more organized and make my life a lot easier.
Best case scenario is that Apple makes both iOS 7 and iCloud Tags-aware at Mavericks' launch, but I suspect that might not happen. Hopefully, Tags will be a tentpole feature across the entire Apple ecosystem before too long though.
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Wow, there are some negative people on this forum.
Are you even running Mavericks? Your complaint about the "background image reset" bug would seem to suggest that you're not. If you "see nothing special" about Mavericks without even trying to run it, then you really shouldn't offer up a worthless, negative comment like that.
A fix to the "background image reset" bug you've complained about would make the upgrade "interesting" to you, surely.
I've been running Mavericks since DP1 and I can tell you that the performance enhancements on my RMBP are in themselves worthy of "interest." The latest DP is incredibly fast and responsive. For everyone that complained of UI lag, rest assured, it's gone. I don't see how things could run any smoother or faster at this point.
Try running the beta AppleTV builds out on the developer site.
Back when they were first doing Airplay mirroring from Macs, running the AppleTV beta builds was the only way to make it work properly.
Load it up with the beta and report back?
Pop open console.app and see if there's anything useful there.
If it still fails, submit a useful bug report!
https://bugreport.apple.com/
IF YOU FIND STUFF THAT IS REPRODUCIBLY BROKEN, SUBMIT A BUG REPORT, DON'T JUST COMPLAIN, THAT DOESN'T HELP ANYONE.
No, it's not just you. I noticed the scrolling problem since day one and although it is not as bad as it was before, it is still annoying and makes scrolling in Safari very unpleasant. I hope they are aware of it and it will get corrected.
I am also very unhappy about the Activity monitor, I can no longer monitor disk space and cannot choose a particular disk to analyze.
Your advice is good and people should submit reports but I think you're wrong about the usefulness of posting: it helps people know they are not alone / crazy / dealing with a hardware issue.
I had the external monitor issue with my HTPC Mac mini:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1613439/
Relevance being, it only has an external monitor and no way to run Console etc., at least before one successful start-up to get in remotely. Initially, I thought the install was corrupted - there was a simultaneous Firmware update - and in trying to fix it, managed to make the disk unreadable. That's when I also found out that reinstallation from the Recovery Partition wasn't yet functional. I didn't yet have a back-up - clean install so no data to lose, and I was going to back up only at DP5 to save the incremental steps in future. Painful. I got it back (the Target Disk Mode, partition, erase the partition when done route), but the same thing happened again on the DP2 -> DP3 upgrade. This time, as clearly the hardware was functional and it was reproducible, I was happier - but before wasting more time wanted to know if there was a workaround, or if the Mac mini needed to sit this one out. Other people sharing their experiences turned out to be very useful, and if they hadn't done that complaining, I'm not sure I'd have thought to remove the HDMI cable and remote in for the rest.
So yes, report the bugs, but don't knock the shared experience.
OpenGL support same as in DP5
Hi,
There is no OpenGL driver/support update in DP6, eg. it has full OpenGL 4.1 core support and only 2 out of 12 OpenGL 4.2 features.
Lets hope we get full 4.2 support at least at next DP or GM/Release.
Hi,
There is no OpenGL driver/support update in DP6, eg. it has full OpenGL 4.1 core support and only 2 out of 12 OpenGL 4.2 features.
Lets hope we get full 4.2 support at least at next DP or GM/Release.
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Just be glad you got 4.1... Remember, everybody stuck in Mountain Lion is stuck at 3.2. I'm really irritated that they won't give Mountain Lion customers 4.1 though. Game developers need as many OS X users as possible running the latest OpenGL versions or else they'll continue to write OpenGL 3 programs.
They'll probably add those with the point updates later on. I'm just glad OS X finally caught up to the latest OpenGL base version.